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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.

Thomas Carlyle

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Bad Change Fortune Goodness Ourselves Time
Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Moments Stop Yourself
Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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Change Force Hope Memories Pain Past Present Work Worth
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Action Alone End Kind
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
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Believe Force God Grace Himself Judgement Kind Soul
No person is important enough to make me angry.
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Angry Enough Important Myself Person
It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Deep Himself Man Poet Sincere Vision
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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Born Dance Life Music Willing World Yourself
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Belief Deep Hard Time Health Hope Motivational
A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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Person Progress Purpose Road Rough
The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Fear Man One Liner Responsibility
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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Death Evil Fools Imagination Judgement Life Man
There are remedies for all things but death.
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Cure Death One Liner
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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Inspirational Motivational Obstacle Path Perspective Strong Weakness
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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Food Fun God Himself People
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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Act Fear Himself Man

Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.

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